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D.S. Nicholas NCIDQ, AIA, LEED GA
Dee leads The Drexel Design Research for Health Lab; as a registered architect, researcher, and certified interior designer, Dee researches, designs, and advocates for services and strategies to bring health and the security of living spaces to people in urban environments. Our Team draws on students and faculty from various disciplines, including biology, chemistry, psychology, education, writing, engineering, nursing, public health, and more….
DRDR4HEALTH LAB STUDENT COLLABORATORS
GRANTS FUNDED AND UNIVERSITY-FUNDED
2024-Present Sinduja Balan MSIA
2023- present Rakshita Sachdev CCI
2023- present Tyler Fulton Design Research
2023-24 Tanaya Deshpande Master of Science Interior Architecture
2023-24 Tasha Singh Master of Science Interior Architecture
2022-23 Alisha PRabhakar, MS Design Research
2019-2020 Rachel Jahr Design Research
2018-2022 Thelmelis Abreu Years DRDR4Health / Garden Fresh Home
2018-2020 Paris Gramman Custom Design Major Alumna, Better Bunk Summer Co-supervised Dr. Yvonne Michael
2020 Grace Newman Lapinski MS Design Research student, Better Bunk Summer Co-supervised Dr. Yvonne Michael
2020 Bradley Winograd Summer Architecture student
2018-2020 Thanh My Nguyen Alumna MS Design Research Program Health Rowhouse Project, Home Preservation Initiative; Co-supervised Dr. Yvonne Michael Funding Stream: Scattergood
2016-2018 Elise Krespan Alumna MS Design Research Program; with Shivanthi Anandan
2017-2018 Nicholas St, Angelo Alumni Design Research Program; Better bunk; Community Partners: RISE; Peoples Emergency Center
2016-2018 Samantha Stein University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Health and Technology Student; Project developed Map the Gap
2020 Simone Scally, Alumna Design Research Student; Years involved 2019-2020 ; Community Partners: IMPACT Services
Public Health Research Assistants: With Dr. Yvonne
2016 Michael Manasvi Shah; MSPBHL
2016 Dylan Tracy MSPBHL
2016 Amir Sedeghi, MSIAD
2016 Neha Basavaraj, MSIAD; URBN STEAMlab; with Shivanthi Anandan
2015 Rita Truongcao, MSIAD; URBN STEAMlab; with Shivanthi Anandan
2015 Will Char, MS Engineering; URBN STEAMlab; Engineering Research Assistants: supervised with Shivanthi Anandan
Research Coops
2015: Bryan Cummings, MS Engineering; Integral Living Research
2016 Biological Environmental and Earth Sciences (BEES): Colin Cavote with Dr. Shivanthi Andandan and Dr. Joan Weiner Research Coop 2014
STAR SCHOLAR RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Summer 2021: Healthy Housing
Ben Wholbourne, Architecture
Summer 2019 Topic: Healthy Housing Convened
Farah Abdel Jawad: Architectural Engineering
Anjelica Soesanto: Architecture
Dolma Sherpa: Digital Media
Summer 2017 Topic: Green Space in the Home
Abigail Gard: Mechanical Engineering with Professor Anandan’s Biology STAR scholars
Hung Nguyen: Mechanical Engineering Summer
Summer 2016 Topic: Urban Housing with Professor Anandan’s Biology STAR scholars
Kiera Townsend: Architecture
Summer 2013 Katie Vaccarro: Interior Design Topic: Healthy and sustainable Interiors, co-advised with Professor Deb Ruben
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